Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

* The Atlantics, an Australian surf rock band formed in the early 1960s

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

Aalto first presented his scheme in 1961, but it went through various modifications during the early 1960s.

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.

However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.

By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.

* Unmanned air vehicles are the latest form of air observation, having been first introduced in the early 1960s.

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

Belgium, like France, controlled African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( formerly Zaire ), Rwanda, and Burundi until the early 1960s.

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

During the early 1960s, while also active in ASCII standardization, IBM simultaneously introduced in its product line of System / 360 the 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ( EBCDIC ), an expansion of their 6-bit binary-coded decimal ( BCDIC ) representation used in earlier card punches.

In the early 1960s, AT & T introduced digital telephony first on long-distance trunk lines.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

Because of this, the United States Air Force XB-70 Valkyrie program was cancelled in the early 1960s ; the later B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit aircraft entered service only after protracted political and development problems.

The generals of the early 1990s had been junior officers in the early 1960s and had witnessed the military coup in 1964.

The United States, particularly through its counterinsurgency doctrines of the early 1960s, was more influential with the older group of officers.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Humble Oil continued to have difficulties promoting itself as a nationwide marketer of petroleum products, despite a number of high-profile marketing strategies.

The first settlers began moving into the Humble area in the early 19th century.

Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 20th century when oil was first produced there.

In the early 1950s, restoration was done on gardens such as Zhuo-Zheng Yuan ( Humble Administrator's Garden ) and Liu Yuan ( Lingering Garden ) to bring them back to life.

* Epiphone Dwight – used during Humble Pie's early days, and can be heard on the band's song " I Don't Need No Doctor ".

Indignant at this failure, Penry published, early in 1587, The Æquity of an Humble Supplication " in the behalf of the country of Wales, that some order may be taken for the preaching of the Gospel among those people ".

Eric Singer began playing drums from an early age, and was inspired by bands such as Humble Pie, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Beatles and Queen and drummers such as John Bonham, Keith Moon, Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor, Bill Ward, and Buddy Rich.

The concert featured an early Humble Pie line up of Frampton, Clempson, Ridley and Shirley.

and probably incorporated one in live shows as early in his 1969-1971 stint in Humble Pie.

By early 1660, Overton's position started to diverge from that of Monck, as he did not support the return of Charles II, but he and his officers refused to aid Generals Lambert and Fleetwood He sought to mediate and published an exhortation to them to maintain the Lord's cause, entitled " The Humble Healing Advice of R. O.

The Orange Humble Band were formed in early 1995, as the brain child of The Lime Spiders & The Someloves founder, Daryl Mather.

In the early 1970s, rock concerts were also held there, including the Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, Mountain, Humble Pie and Deep Purple.

During the late 1970s and by the early 1980s it became one of the original stations in the United States to launch a format that would later become a staple for Urban contemporary, playing the latest Funk, R & B and New wave music, featuring local DJs such as " Humble Harve ", Brian Roberts and " Lucky Pierre.

In early December 2005 the 2005 Hemel Hempstead fuel depot explosions occurred at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal.

Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil — especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil.

Gulf Oil was most synonymous for its association with auto racing, as it famously sponsored the John Wyer Automotive team in the 1960s and early ' 70s.

While most oil companies were switching to leaded gasolines en masse during the mid-to-late 1920s, American Oil chose to continue marketing its premium-grade " Amoco-Gas " ( later Amoco Super-Premium ) as a lead-free gasoline by using aromatics rather than tetraethyllead to increase octane levels, decades before the environmental movement of the early 1970s led to more stringent auto emission controls which ultimately mandated the universal phase out of leaded gasoline.

In the early 1990s, Sarandon received three more Academy Award nominations for her roles in Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), Lorenzo's Oil ( 1992 ) and The Client ( 1994 ).

The south-eastern part of the island has undergone small scale oil and gas capturing from possibly as early as 1919 when the British Union Oil Company acquired over 75 % of the drilling rights in Barbados.

The South Texas Oil Boom included wells drilled in Zapata County in the early 1920s through the work of Laredo industrialist Oliver Winfield Killam, a Missouri native who once served as an Oklahoma state legislator.

The Hartford City Gas & Oil Company was formed in early 1887, and successfully drilled a natural gas well later in the year.

" As the initial headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California, Santa Paula was one of the early centers of California's enormous petroleum industry.

It is the home of the Illinois Oil Field Museum and Resource Center at Oblong, Illinois, a collection of early oilfield artifacts from the early days of the oil industry in the Illinois Basin and a resource center featuring a collection of early oil field records and resource books.

In the early days of the boom, Noble residents placed Noble a large sign over Route 50 in the village reading " Noble, The Oil Center of the World ," in August 1937.

Adjacent to the cotton exhibit is the " Black Gold ", a replica of an oilfield roughneck -- a general laborer worker who loading and unloads cargo from crane baskets and keeps the drilling equipment clean -- employed in the early 1930s by the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company.

Built in the late 1920s by Standard Oil Company, the building housed a U. S Experimental Station in the early 1920s that began flying mail for the US Post Office.

The first gas station in the village was established in the early 1900s by Standard Oil Company.

* Clayton W. Williams, Sr. ( b. 1895-d. 1983 ), as an engineer with Oil Belt Power Company, he lived in Eastland during the early 1920s.

An early experiment by Shell Oil Company in massive oil storage in McCamey proved a failure: local oilmen built a reservoir to hold up to one million barrels of oil in an earthen tank, but the limestone formation underneath the tank cracked under the weight of the crude, allowing much of it to leak into the subsurface.

With the discovery of the Goose Creek Oil Field, the rival communities of Pelly in the late 1910s, and East Baytown in the early 1920s, developed as early boomtowns.

In early 1947 Superior Oil erected a drilling / production platform in of water some 18 miles off Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.

Union Oil Company of California, dba Unocal is a defunct company that was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.

Capriati appeared in an Oil of Olay commercial in the early 1990s.

In the early 1920s, the Standard Oil tanker J. A.